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  Chinatown 1974

  ★★★½ Watched 21 Mar 2025

  16+ a solid drama mystery. Well acted and Nicholson’s best performance in my opinion. Interesting and keeps you on your toes

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  Atonement 2007

  ★★★½ Watched 28 Feb 2025

  16+ sobering and serious but a gripping watch. So many close misses in this movie. I really wanted to rate it higher but felt it critically left some to be desired. Soundtrack is interesting but gets irritating with constant typewriter as percussion. Acting is solid and leaves little too complain about. Script is a bit confusing with constant flashbacks that seem cut in at odd times. Cinematography is pretty and scenes are nice to look at but a bit unusual. …

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  Barbie 2023

  ½ Watched 23 Jul 2023 1

  14+ Barbie fights the evil capitalist patriarchy that is toy makers? Men generally? A movie full of overtly sexual comments, detailed step by step instructions on how to emotionally abuse others and long winded speeches by wealthy popular Hollywood stars on why they are oppressed. Hear delicate and tasteful lines like “… Just so you know I don’t have a vagina” and “they expect me to be a manager and not be mean to anyone” or “I will beach you…

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  Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World 2003

  ★★★½ Rewatched 22 Sep 2023

  12+ well acted and entertaining. Definitely a bit of a boys movie but good and fairly lighthearted. Fun movie and easy to watch.